[GRLUG] Co-location hosting in or near GR/Muskegon

[Mike Williams]

I'm curious. Why insist on colocating your own hardware at that kind of 
price when you can rent a virtual machine from a cloud provider like 
Amazon's S3 much more cheaply? Is there some specialized hardware on the 
machines that can't be virtualized, or maybe security fears?

On 02/13/2011 04:30 PM, Clay Ashby wrote:
> I'm interested in the details. I'm planning on doing some hosting 
> services in the future. Is this purely for redundancy; like a "hot 
> site"? Is it for hosting websites redundantly, or other services as well?
>
> On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Bruce Smith <blubdog at gmail.com 
> <mailto:blubdog at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     > I was wondering if anyone of you knew of any decently priced
>     co-location
>     > hosting in the Grand Rapids or Muskegon area. The need is
>     non-commercial so
>     > price is a BIG factor, but I would be willing to pay if the
>     price is right.
>     > If you want more details on my needs, feel free to ask.
>
>     I'm in Kalamazoo and a couple years ago we searched for a nearby
>     co-location facility that is cheap.  We searched Kalamazoo, Grand
>     Rapids, Lansing, and other areas within a driving distance of
>     Kalamazoo.
>
>     Most were in the $400/month range, which is what was more that we
>     wanted to pay.  The closest thing we found that was "cheap", was a
>     place in South Bend IN. who's equivalent price was $70/month.  It was
>     a farther drive for us (and even farther for you), but we went with
>     them and it's worked out okay so far.  It's nothing fancy (kinda dumpy
>     actually).  Just an old building in an old part of town, with cheap
>     racks in a large room.  But they had good bandwidth, power backup and
>     A/C.  Definitely a budget shop, and their prices reflect it
>     significantly.
>
>     Let me know if you want more info.
>
>      - BS
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